I'm hoping that someday enough will realize the entire medical profession is one big lie that they will walk away from it all and live in health instead.
I think the annual killings of Americans by the medical establishment now numbers half a million per year. And, we expend some godly amount of money for that privilege.
It’s such a horrifying story. Many of us have been burned by the medical system in smaller ways. The man was killed, slowly over decades by the system claiming to save him. So sad.
I don't think Emily or anyone else is going to find answers. The question has been raised so many times - if I am doing well with an undetectable viral load and high CD4 count, why do I have accelerated age related illnesses and feel like hell most days? If there are no answers for the living, there is less incentive to address this issue for those who passed away. The official cause of death would not be recorded as HIV itself but rather one of the related complications. To quote several infectious disease experts "Not every other illness you have is related to HIV! It is just a pill a day and you should be grateful the medication exists today to keep you alive. Stop complaining." Medical professionals downplay the side effects for the newly diagnosed who are encouraged to present an exaggerated cheerful facade to the public, until their bag of medication for almost every secondary illness gets bigger with time.
Rebecca, thank you for surfacing this. Emily O'Reilly's piece is one of the most clear-eyed accounts I've read of how the contemporary HIV framing collides with what actually unfolds in real bodies on real treatment over real decades. Her questions are the right ones, and her instinct to keep asking them is the instinct of a working journalist who knows when something doesn't add up.
If Emily reads this — I'm sorry for the loss of your brother. The questions you're asking about Brian have answers, and they're ones the establishment has worked hard to keep buried. Fifteen antiretroviral regimens between 1997 and 2022 is not a "well-controlled" treatment history; it is a record of cumulative organ assault, each new regimen rotated in to manage the damage of the last. Truvada's bone and kidney signal is on the package insert. KS on suppressive ART has been documented for two decades and remains, as you noted, "AIDS-defining" only because the classification scheme requires it to be — not because the biology supports it.
The "disconnect" you sensed between the contemporary narrative and your brother's final two years is real, and it isn't accidental. It is structural. I've spent the last twenty years inside the case files of people the system said had been diagnosed with HIV-AIDS, and the pattern your brother lived through — antibody-marker classification → lifelong protocol → progressive iatrogenic injury → death framed as "the underlying virus" — is the pattern, not an outlier.
I recently published a piece that addresses these questions directly, including the specific question of why 2023 deaths can look like 1985 deaths, why the chemo-for-KS-on-ART loop exists, and why the phrase "through no fault of their own" is the moral hinge the entire forty-year apparatus rests on. If it's useful to your continued reporting, it's here: https://rkoch.substack.com/p/through-no-fault-of-their-own
With sincere respect for your brother's memory and the rigor of your questions,
It's unbelievable that the AIDS truth movement no longer has a a vibrant voice akin to the 9/11 truth movement. Something needs to be done urgently to prevent the 'HIV causes AIDS' myth becoming even more solidified, even immovable.
I'm hoping that someday enough will realize the entire medical profession is one big lie that they will walk away from it all and live in health instead.
I think the annual killings of Americans by the medical establishment now numbers half a million per year. And, we expend some godly amount of money for that privilege.
It’s such a horrifying story. Many of us have been burned by the medical system in smaller ways. The man was killed, slowly over decades by the system claiming to save him. So sad.
I don't think Emily or anyone else is going to find answers. The question has been raised so many times - if I am doing well with an undetectable viral load and high CD4 count, why do I have accelerated age related illnesses and feel like hell most days? If there are no answers for the living, there is less incentive to address this issue for those who passed away. The official cause of death would not be recorded as HIV itself but rather one of the related complications. To quote several infectious disease experts "Not every other illness you have is related to HIV! It is just a pill a day and you should be grateful the medication exists today to keep you alive. Stop complaining." Medical professionals downplay the side effects for the newly diagnosed who are encouraged to present an exaggerated cheerful facade to the public, until their bag of medication for almost every secondary illness gets bigger with time.
Rebecca, thank you for surfacing this. Emily O'Reilly's piece is one of the most clear-eyed accounts I've read of how the contemporary HIV framing collides with what actually unfolds in real bodies on real treatment over real decades. Her questions are the right ones, and her instinct to keep asking them is the instinct of a working journalist who knows when something doesn't add up.
If Emily reads this — I'm sorry for the loss of your brother. The questions you're asking about Brian have answers, and they're ones the establishment has worked hard to keep buried. Fifteen antiretroviral regimens between 1997 and 2022 is not a "well-controlled" treatment history; it is a record of cumulative organ assault, each new regimen rotated in to manage the damage of the last. Truvada's bone and kidney signal is on the package insert. KS on suppressive ART has been documented for two decades and remains, as you noted, "AIDS-defining" only because the classification scheme requires it to be — not because the biology supports it.
The "disconnect" you sensed between the contemporary narrative and your brother's final two years is real, and it isn't accidental. It is structural. I've spent the last twenty years inside the case files of people the system said had been diagnosed with HIV-AIDS, and the pattern your brother lived through — antibody-marker classification → lifelong protocol → progressive iatrogenic injury → death framed as "the underlying virus" — is the pattern, not an outlier.
I recently published a piece that addresses these questions directly, including the specific question of why 2023 deaths can look like 1985 deaths, why the chemo-for-KS-on-ART loop exists, and why the phrase "through no fault of their own" is the moral hinge the entire forty-year apparatus rests on. If it's useful to your continued reporting, it's here: https://rkoch.substack.com/p/through-no-fault-of-their-own
With sincere respect for your brother's memory and the rigor of your questions,
Clark
It's unbelievable that the AIDS truth movement no longer has a a vibrant voice akin to the 9/11 truth movement. Something needs to be done urgently to prevent the 'HIV causes AIDS' myth becoming even more solidified, even immovable.
<<Medical notes suggested that he swap strawberry flavour for chocolate.>>
Simply...amazing...